Chapter 0417

“Get in your places, please,” Nathan called from the bottom of the stage. Bridget hurried to take point beside him. “Are you two ready?”

“Ready,” Nicholas said. He had his script out too.

“Ready,” I echoed. My heart hammered in my chest as I skimmed the first line. This was going to be even worse than I thought.

“Begin!” Nathan called.

I braced myself. Nicholas was set to start off the scene.

His eyes were locked on the script. He didn’t speak right away.

“I said, begin!” Nathan said again.

Nicholas cleared his throat. When he looked up at me, his eyes were hard. “We have to end things between us,” he said.

God, I knew he was acting but the words still speared through me. He was just reading the

script, but my

up in my chest. It was too real.

I had to.

asked. It was my line but it

swallowed hard. “There’s someone else.”

“Who?” I read.

matter who.”

sooner this was over, the sooner I could pretend this never

I don’t love you.”

again and again. But I couldn’t help thinking that this was eerily close to how the end of our

there’s someone else. I

telling him I love him for him not to feel it back

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other right now, nor have we fully admitted the extent of our feelings for one another. It felt… safer that

realized I was

shattering my heart like it was made

shocking then, as

but I held up my hand. I didn’t want comfort here. How could I ever accept it? We were on stage with the whole of the

to finish the

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